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Posts in April 2026
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Archives, Tags, Months, and Series (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Pagination)
Three ways to slice the same posts (because one axis is never enough)
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Template Engine and Template Structure (Or: Why I Didn't Use Handlebars Like a Normal Person)
Three constraints that shaped the grammar (because constraints are good, actually)
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Custom SSG Pipeline: From Markdown to Static HTML (Without Losing Your Mind)
The pipeline, in one picture (because I know you're skimming)
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Why I Skipped Astro, Eleventy and Next.js (And Built My Own SSG Like a Goddamn Caveman)
The default answer and why I ignored it
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Rebuilding dout.dev With an AI Copilot: Less Boilerplate, Same Amount of Existential Dread
The honest framing
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CMS and Markdown Processing (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Flat File)
The useful distinction
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How I Built dout.dev (and why I did not use a framework like a normal person)
What the stack is, exactly (TL;DR: files + Node + blood)